behavioral assay

This study examines how predator stimulus and habitat structure influence antipredator behavior in frogs, finding that physical contact with predators and habitat complexity significantly affect escape strategies.

This study shows that developmental exposure to alcohol both prenatally and during adolescence leads to more severe deficits in executive function domains like disinhibition, working memory, and behavioral flexibility in rodents.

This study quantifies heritable variation in scototaxis among Trinidadian guppy populations and links it to predation regimes and evolutionary divergence.

IntelliProfiler 2.0 is an R pipeline for analyzing RFID tracking data from group-housed mice, capturing circadian and sex-dependent behavioral patterns with improved reproducibility.

This study investigates social interactions in adult captive tortoises, finding that sex, not familiarity, influences social cohesion and behavior.

This study compares social cognition in two lines of Japanese quail selected for high and low social motivation, finding context-dependent effects on sociocognitive tasks.

The paper introduces a method to analyze behavior by treating timescale as a state coordinate, revealing metastable basins in nematode and fruit fly behavior.

This paper compares neurobehavioral responses to silica nanoparticles and temperature in wild rhabditid nematodes and C. elegans, showing species-specific differences and temperature-dependent effects.

This study compares daily and weekly glucocorticoid dosing in mdx mice, showing weekly vamorolone improves muscle function while minimizing adverse effects on metabolism and the CNS.

This paper introduces a drift diffusion model with hidden Markov states to analyze time-dependent decision-making in rats, revealing daily fluctuations in performance linked to circadian rhythms.

The paper tests how relaxed selection affects social memory and host defenses against cuckoos in reed warblers, finding that defenses degrade rapidly when selection is relaxed.

This study tests if 110-120 MHz RF fields affect magnetic orientation in Eurasian blackcaps, finding reduced but not eliminated orientation capability in the altered magnetic field condition.

This study shows that pairs of termites exhibit body-like coordination during movement, mirroring internal body organization through leader-follower dynamics.

The paper compares olfactory coding in three drosophilid species to assess conservation of peripheral detection and behavioral valence across evolutionary divergent subgenera.

This study identifies DmTMEM16O as an arthropod-specific protein that accelerates olfactory response termination in Drosophila by increasing membrane conductance during the decay phase.

This study examines the behavioral and circuit-level effects of acute and chronic gastric electrical stimulation in rodents, revealing context-dependent and temporally dynamic changes in anxiety-related behavior and neural activity.

This study examines how wild crickets respond to repeated stressors, finding limited habituation, trait-specific flexibility, and individual variation in behavioral responses.

This study evaluates periodic group housing (PG) in sows compared to continuous stall housing (CS), finding reduced stillbirths in PG but no difference in other reproductive outcomes.

The paper develops a spiking semantic SLAM algorithm for an embodied neural agent and compares its behavior to human spatial memory and neural data in a virtual reality task.

This paper introduces DataDIVER, an automated method for discovering computational models from data, which reveals novel insights into human and animal learning.

The paper shows humans use a structured exploration strategy in complex environments by systematically sampling task dimensions, improving learning efficiency.

This study shows that rearing conditions in zebra finches affect their behavioral response to audiovisual stimuli, indicating that early sensory experience influences multisensory integration during mate recognition.

The study shows that fast growth in cleaner wrasse is linked to reduced social control rather than service quality, with slow growers spending more time near dominants.

This study shows that acute stress in female adolescent rats increases anxiety-like behaviors but not depression-like behaviors, regardless of the timing of stress exposure.

This study shows stochastic choice explains variability in patch foraging decisions in humans and rats, making leaving variability independent of environmental rewards and using suboptimal internal reward rate estimates.

Across six zebrafish lines over one year, artificial home-tank plants left sex ratio, fertility and microbial counts unchanged, while fish avoided plant areas.

This study performs a global meta-analysis of urban-associated behavioral differences across species, finding increased boldness, aggression, exploration, and activity in urban populations.

The paper develops FEDUPP, an open-source analysis pipeline, to assess learning and cognitive flexibility in mice using a home-cage paradigm, revealing subtle impairments in goal-directed feeding behavior.

This study investigates how visual and chemical cues influence mate-location behavior in prawns, finding that spatially congruent multimodal signals are necessary for effective mate searching.

This study examines the effects of short-term obesogenic diet withdrawal on metabolic, inflammatory, and behavioral outcomes in young rats, finding increased inflammation and anxiety-like behaviors.